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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Coca-Cola, which has unveiled one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated billboards -- a 30-metre wide neon colossus which can respond to the weather and interact with people looking at it from the ground. The billboard is located in Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London. It will also be able to recognise if people are waving at it from the ground below and, eventually, will be able to respond to text messages from mobile phones.
  • Icelandic researchers, who say they have found a gene that determines whether people are predisposed to being fat or thin.
  • Lovers in Thailand, who are the happiest in the world with their sex lives, according to a global survey by condom manufacturer Durex. 92% of Thais said they were sexually satisfied, followed closely by the Vietnamese (90%). The Taiwanese were the most sexually disappointed of all nationalities with 61%. Perhaps it's the weather, but Nordic respondents were the most inclined to go to bed with a stranger. 71% of Icelanders, 70% of Norwegians and 68% of Finns have had sex with someone they just met, compared with 37% of Germans and 24% of Indians.
  • Ocean travel, after the largest and most luxurious passenger ship ever built was launched. The Queen Mary II is 350 metres long and as high as a 23-storey building.
  • Arab-Israeli relations, with the news that extreme sports enthusiasts are organising an extraordinary joint Israeli-Palestinian expedition to Antartica. The team, consisting of four Israelis and four Palestinians, will embark on their 35-day trek on 1 January. "Real peace is made between people, not leaders," said Ziad Darwish, from Jerusalem. They don’t expect it to be easy: two members of the team served in the Israeli army, while a third was jailed for attacking Israeli soldiers during the Eighties.
  • "Lulu", a kangaroo, which saved the life of its Australian owner. When farmer Leonard Richards was knocked unconscious by a falling tree, Lulu knew exactly what to do: she hopped back to the house, banged on the front door to get his wife’s attention, then led her back to the scene of the accident. Paramedics say if it hadn’t been for Lulu, who was rescued by the family ten years ago when her mother was killed by a truck, Richards would have died.
  • David Beckham, with the news that his autobiography, My Side, sold 86,000 copies in its first two days.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • The world's oldest man, retired Japanese silkworm breeder Yukichi Chuganji, who has died at the age of 114.
  • Lovers in Indonesia, with the news that the Ministry of Justice is planning to make the following activities crimes: cohabitation, oral sex, homosexual sex, extramarital and non-marital sex.
  • A Swedish man, who was arrested at Sydney airport trying to smuggle eight dangerous snakes, including four deadly King Cobras, into the country strapped to his legs. King Cobras are the world's largest venomous snakes, growing to an average length of nearly six meters

  • Farm animals, which have been banned from apartments in Kiev. A survey found 3000 pigs, 500 cows, 1000 goats and numerous geese, rabbits and chickens in apartments in the Ukranian city.

  • Alan Hunt, an unemployed actor, who was charged with theft after stealing a cheese sandwich from a policeman’s lunchbox. Hunt was thrown into a cell for eight hours after committing the crime while waiting to take part in an identity parade at a police station in Bournemouth, England. Luciana Morad, the former model (and mother of Mick Jagger’s love child), who has a new job hosting a chat show in her native Brazil. Recently, a guest confided that she had once tried to kill herself by taking an overdose. Leaning forward sympathetically, Morad asked: "Did you die?"

POLITICALLY CORRECT OR JUST MADNESS?

British children will not be able to fail national tests in future because exam chiefs are planning to abolish the current F for "fail" grade and replace it with an N for "nearly". Other changes include instructions that markers grade maths test answers as either "credit-worthy" or not "credit-worthy" instead of correct of incorrect.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

"You do not really understand something unless you explain it to your grandmother." Albert Einstein

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

  • Twenty years ago, there were 230,000 lions in Africa; now there are only 23,000.
  • Over 20000 different languages and dialects are spoken worldwide.

And now here are the answers to last week’s homework was about expressions with come and go.

Part One:

  1. His tie doesn’t really go with his suit.
  2. As the course went on, Ivan began to enjoy it more.
  3. Apple trees usually come into bloom in April in England.
  4. It goes without saying that we’ll give Ivan a birthday present.
  5. Please come round and see me some time soon.
  6. My alarm clock goes off every morning at 7.15.
  7. It’s always hard to come to terms with a death in the family.
  8. Her jokes never quite seem to come off
  9. Although the children have been on the go all day, they don’t seem tired.
  10. They went to great lengths to make the evening a success.

Part Two:

I hope Jim and Sarah will manage to (1) make a success of their marriage. However, I am sure no wife or family will ever (2) separate Jim and his music. Ever since he (3) found by chance an old guitar in a flea market and (4) had its first try at playing it, Jim has been a fanatical guitarist. (5) It is self-evident that the guitar will accompany them on their honeymoon. Jim has great hopes of (6) getting a contract with a recording company but, although his playing is all right, (7) within its limitations not enough people really (8) are enthusiastic about his style of music at the moment and who knows if it will ever (9) become fashionable again. Still, perhaps one day a CD of his work will (10) be published

And the riddle?

Metal or bone I may be,
many teeth I have and always bared,
yet my bite harms no one
and ladies delight in my touch.

What am I?
The answer is a comb.

This week’s homework is about expressions.

Part One: Choose a verb from the box and put it in the correct form

break

let

look

run

see

turn

Example: It’s time you looked for a new job.

  1. We thought the car had ………………..down but it had just ……………..out of fuel.
  2. ……………….out! Make sure you don’t…………….go of the rope or Harry’ll fall.
  3. It’s my job to………………..to the arrangements, so let’s …………..over the plans again.
  4. When we were……………Ivan off at the station, we ………….into some old friends.
  5. Katie………down his invitation because she was………….forward to an early night.

Part Two: Use one of the expressions in the box to complete these sentences.

a good turn broke the record broke her heart let it slip looks down his nose
on the bright side over a new leaf run off our feet see your way wood for the trees
let go of

see Example

Example: If you let go of her hand, she might get lost.
  1. Ivan says the boss sometimes can’t see the………………..
  2. Pat is pessimistic but his wife usually looks……………………….
  3. In January Ivan has promised to turn ………………………
  4. I’m worn out. We’ve been………………today.
  5. She says that it……………………when her husband died.
  6. Could you possibly………………….to finishing the report today?
  7. He’s very snobbish – He…………………………at most people.
  8. Richard…………………that they were planning to get married.
  9. My grandma used to tell me to try to do someone………………..every day.
  10. Jill was overjoyed when she ……………………for the 100m.

This week I have two riddles for you:

Riddle 1:

What special property do the following letters of the alphabet have?
j, k, m, q, u, x, z

Riddle 2:

There is a certain family with both girl and boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?

Kind regards

Gennadiy

Внимание! Предлагается литература ведущих издательств Британии и США.
- популярные книги для чтения – Penguin Readers,
- словари,
- грамматика.
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